Chiropractic students offer free clinics

A program aimed at helping hundreds of people who would not otherwise be able to access chiropractic care is visiting north-west Western Australia.

Chiropractic students from Murdoch University and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and their supervisors, will provide free health care in Carnarvon, Kununurra, Meekatharra and Tom Price.

The program, which in its sixth year, also aims to develop the students as health professionals.

Organiser Bruce Walker says the free clinics have generated a range of success stories over the years.

"An example is in an Aboriginal community we've seen several men who have been in the past drovers on horseback and in their early days fallen off horses and never been treated in the 30 years they've carried the pain," he said.

"We have been able to treat those people and give them immediate relief, which has been very rewarding for the students.

"Our main goal is to treat musculoskeletal problems, problems associated with muscles and bones, in particular the back and the neck, and we have had marvellous success stories with the people who have come along."